Carma
Meaning
“American variant of Carmen/Carmel, from Hebrew kerem, vineyard or garden; the echo of Sanskrit karma is likely coincidental.”
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Carma has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
389 people · the #15,889 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 63
Among people named Carma living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1960s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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